SharePoint 2010 has made great strides in terms of design and accessibility, which makes your job as a “SharePoint Designer” much easier.

In this article, we’ll explore the dialog functionality that comes with the SharePoint 2010 platform, and we’ll discover new ways to customize that content to create a uniquely fresh appearance for your SharePoint portal.

The user interface improvements in SharePoint 2010 as a whole are truly amazing. Microsoft has brought this already impressive product leaps and bounds in terms of accessibility, standards, and usability

As with SharePoint 2007, templates are a great way to get started in crafting your own SharePoint 2010 design. I’ve created a starter master page that I’ve been using, which includes a clean and formatted master page and comments to let you know what each SharePoint control actually does.

If you’re not familiar with SharePoint, one thing you can do in the platform is place web parts on a page, which are akin to sidebar widgets in WordPress or other CMS platforms.